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US: Trump claims foreign policy prize with normalization accords
The White House signing of normalization agreements between Israel and both the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain scrambled the media storyline of a US president out of his depth in foreign affairs. Most US efforts at peace in the Middle East end up in frustration or worse. White House signing ceremonies are a rare foreign policy prize. In the past four decades, there had been only three such events: peace agreements between Israel and Egypt in 1978, the PLO in 1993 and Jordan in 1994.